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Gobindram Mitter (also spelt Govindram Mitra, Gobindaram Mitra, Gobinda Ram Mitra, Gobindro Ram Mitro) was one of the earliest Indian officials during the Company rule in India, who earned reputation for his wealth and extravagance.

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  • Gobindram Mitter (also spelt Govindram Mitra, Gobindaram Mitra, Gobinda Ram Mitra, Gobindro Ram Mitro) was one of the earliest Indian officials during the Company rule in India, who earned reputation for his wealth and extravagance. (en)
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  • 1776-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Chanak, 24 Parganas, Company Raj (en)
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  • 1776 (xsd:integer)
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  • Gobindram Mitter (en)
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  • Tax collector (en)
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  • The Zemindar was a collector of revenue as well as a judicial officer; and it is on record that it was part of his duty to "make roads and repair drains" … The President and Council, or any three of them, the President being one, were empowered to hold a court in revenue cases, but the real power lay with the Zemindar, and, it may be added with the Indian deputy, who went by the name of "Black Zemindar". This office was filled during whole of the period from 1720 to 1756, by the famous Gobindram Metre , of whom John Zephaniah Holwell, Zemindar of Calcutta from 1752 to 1756, wrote that by reason of the many changes in the headship of the office, "a power in perpetuity devolved on the standing deputy who was always styled the 'Black Zemindar,’ and such was the tyranny of this man and such the dread conceived of him in the minds of the natives that no one durst complain or give information". It need hardly be said that Gobindram accumulated vast wealth during the tenure of power: and he is said to have built in 1731 a magnificent "nine jewel" temple on Chitpore Road, the loftiest pinnacle of which was higher than the Ochterlony Monument… The main building was overthrown in the terrible cyclone and earthquake of 1737. (en)
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  • H.E.A.Cotton (en)
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  • Gobindram Mitter (also spelt Govindram Mitra, Gobindaram Mitra, Gobinda Ram Mitra, Gobindro Ram Mitro) was one of the earliest Indian officials during the Company rule in India, who earned reputation for his wealth and extravagance. (en)
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  • Gobindram Mitter (en)
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